Word: faintly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet dissidents still at large have their principal following in the West. They sometimes behave like high officials of a shadow government, hoping to get their manifestoes played back into the Soviet Union by Western radio, but the resonance of those messages among their countrymen seems to be very faint. To the extent that they have an impact, the dissidents are often dismissed by the general public as reckless dreamers or denounced as traitors, which is just the way the official press portrays them...
...over." By then he had already arrived in New Jersey for what was to be a three-day campaign swing, but he canceled that, canceled all plans for California, and flew home to Houston to decide on his future course. Ex-President Gerald Ford offered a faint wisp of help, telling a press conference that Bush had done well in the industrial states where "Governor Reagan could have some difficulty." But though Bush might prolong his campaign, the indications were that his candidacy was about over...
...Endeavor as it slipped out of Little Torch Key. Aboard were two Cuban Americans from Miami who had paid the boat's captain $5,000 to take them to Cuba to fetch 17 members of their families. It was 18 miles from the Cuban coast that the first faint harbinger of trouble surfaced: a small runabout wallowing out of gas. We secured a line and towed it in. At Mariel, the harbor gradually took on the look of a water-bound tent city: laundry fluttering from the tethered craft; dejected skippers passing the waiting hours with poker games...
...from the bus, shoved against the telephone poles and tied up. Then, for perhaps 20 minutes, they waited desperately while the firing squad tried to get itself organized. Cecil Dennis, one of Africa's most respected diplomats, stood impassively as soldiers heckled him. Frank Tolbert collapsed in a faint or, perhaps, from a heart attack. Charles King, a member of the House of Representatives, looked around nervously, as though he expected to wake up and find it was all a dream. The officer in charge struggled to unjam the rifle of one member of his firing squad. Finally...
Islamic tradition has always extended charity to diplomats and wayfarers. According to the Mishkat-ul-Mas-abih, a standard Hadith text, an enemy courier named Abu Rafi converted to Islam, but Muhammad insisted he return to his tribe so that the Prophet might avoid even a faint suspicion that he had taken Rafi as a hostage. Muhammad declared flatly, "I do not break treaties, nor do I make prisoners of envoys." The Koran 9:6 insists that even a religious enemy be granted asylum and conveyed to safety...